The Magnificent Cuckold or Il magnifico cornuto is a 1965

Italian films of 1965

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 Italian

Cinema of Italy

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 film

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 directed by Antonio Pietrangeli

Antonio Pietrangeli

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 and based on the Belgian

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 play Le Cocu magnifique.

Plot

The Magnificent Cuckold is about a hat tycoon who is ecstatically, if not hungrily, in love with his youthful wife. It is all blissful, that is, until our man, middle-aged and somewhat of a square among his blasé, upper-class friends to whom cuckoldry is a common practice, is seduced by one of them. At this point doubts and suspicions, like conscience, begin to plague him. If he could succumb to extramarital confections, why not his gorgeous mate? Quickly his love for his spouse degenerates beyond obsessive, into the realm of maniacal. He becomes madly concerned that his wife is cheating on him --even though she is not being unfaithful. When he looks at her it becomes obvious to him that she is a very attractive woman. And, all the men around her must be dying to be with her. Gnawed by jealously, he will imagine variations on nabbing her and her lover in flagrante delicto

In flagrante delicto

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Cast

• Claudia Cardinale
  Claudia Cardinale
  Claudia Cardinale is an Italian actress, and has appeared in some of the most prominent European films of the 1960s and 1970s. The majority of Cardinale's films have been either Italian or French...
  
  ... Maria Grazia
• Ugo Tognazzi
  Ugo Tognazzi
  Ugo Tognazzi was an Italian film, TV, and theatre actor, director, and screenwriter.-Early life:Tognazzi was born in Cremona, in northern Italy but spent his youth in various localities as his father was a traveller clerk for an insurance company.After his return in the native city in 1936, he...
  
  ... Andrea Artusi
• Bernard Blier
  Bernard Blier
  Bernard Blier was a French character actor. His rotund features and premature baldness allowed him to often play cuckolded husbands in his early career. He proved to be one of France's most versatile and sought-after character actors, performing interchangeably in comedies and dramas...
  
  ... Mariotti
• Michèle Girardon ... Cristiana
• Paul Guers
  Paul Guers
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  ... Gabriele
• Philippe Nicaud
• Gian Maria Volonté
  Gian Maria Volontè
  Gian Maria Volonté was an Italian actor. He is perhaps most famous outside of Italy for his roles as the main villain in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More.-Early life:Volonté was born in Milan, and graduated in Rome in 1957...
  
  ... Assessore
• Susy Andersen
  Susy Andersen
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  ... Wanda Mariotti
• José Luis de Vilallonga ... Presidente
• Ester Carloni
• Edda Ferronao
• Olindo De Turres
• Elvira Tonelli
• Antonio Gerini
• Liliana Salvioni